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PADF’s Fwontyè Nou—Nuestra Frontera (Our Border) program, financed largely by USAID, is creating economic opportunities and mitigating conflict in the Haiti-Dominican Republic border lands by strengthening the local civil society and working with both governments to improve their vision of the border. PADF is working with 43 organizations along both sides of the border and is providing a mixture of training, technical assistance, and accompaniment to help these organizations to improve their technical and financial capacities and to effectively reach out to their communities, their governments, and their cross-border neighbors. Additionally, PADF is working the Haitian Parliament, the Dominican Border Development Agency and a host of national and international organizations to promote development of the border lands and to promote cross-border collaboration.
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With financing from Stanford financial, PADF is also working with host governments (Haitian and Dominican) to build a market that serves as a paradigm for future bi-national cooperation along the border. By reducing conflicts among producers, buyers, and border officials and by creating a cleaner and safer location for market activities, this initiative will improve the lives of the 5,000 women who currently use the market—a number that will likely double as the new market becomes an important point for regional trade.
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In the Dominican Republic, PADF’s Disaster Management Alliance, the Hotel and Touristic Project Association, the Las Americas International Airport, the Punta Cana Foundation, and the Punta Cana Ecological Foundation are collaborating with area communities, corresponding national authorities, the Puerto Rico Seismic Network, and other partners. The goal is to ensure that information from the newly installed seismic monitoring stations can be disseminated immediately. In the event of a large local earthquake, they are developing and implementing an effective early alert warning system along tsunami-prone coastal communities and tourist complexes.
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